The movie the Lone Ranger is an action and comedy film. The main protagonist is a young man who is fresh out of law school. He wishes to join his older brother in their local town to bring order and justice. The setting is in the old time small western towns in the desert. The murder of his older brother stirs the protagonist on a way to seek revenge and fight for justice. The main male protagonist performs the stereotypical role of male revenge. He does not try to find help but takes matters…
1. Why did Congress try to impeach President Johnson? The impeachment of President Johnson seemed to be more of a political and dispute matter as opposed to Johnson conducting a high crime or misdemeanor. Although he narrowly escaped removal from office, it was very clear from the start that his policies and plans or opposition for reconstruction were unpopular with radical republicans and congress. Before we get into the legal reasoning for his impeachment, we have to understand his conflicts…
“[What happens in the film] can happen in every single suburb of Europe, it is a reality of immigration, which is the slavery of the 21st century, that is happening all over the world” (McCracken 2011). These are the words of, Alejandro González Iñárritu, the director of Biutiful, when asked about the shooting of the film. The severity of the words can come at the reader as shocking but in reality they accurately represent the current reality of the globalized world. The ongoing globalization is…
Representing Race Nazism and the influence of American eugenicism Germany was influenced by the fast paced American eugenics movement, like other countries in Europe such as France, Belgium, Sweden, and England, in where eugenicist groups strived to introduce eugenic beliefs into national life. Hitler terrorized an entire continent and exterminated million in his quest for a so-called Master Race. Yet, the blue-eyed and blonde physical traits, well sought after by eugenicists didn’t…
history has a funny, and often unfortunate way, of repeating itself. In conclusion, Robert McNamara’s lessons from The Fog of War can be applied to many scenarios, both past and present, in the intelligence field. From the invasion of Iraq and the USA PATRIOT Act all the way back to the Lawrence of Arabia, these lessons were surely learned by other people, and unfortunately, will probably arise in the future again as well. Finally, whether one agrees with the decisions McNamara made or not, it…
I wrote my paper on the 2016 film Moonlight that won best picture at the 2017 Golden Globes as well as the Academy Award for best picture, and best-supporting actor as well as best adapted screen play. Moonlight is a coming of age story about Chiron who is a child figuring out who he is. He is from the ghettos of Miami called Liberty City. In Act 1, You find out Chiron is alone in the world and his mom is crack addict who buys crack from a man named Juan who is the neighborhood drug boss and…
Grizzly Men and The Grizzly Man An analysis of two Werner Herzog documentaries By Leon Kavanagh 16/11/14 Year 3 Film & Television Production Word count: Herzog’s immense gift for coaxing such human performances from his subjects is undeniably present in his documentary features. There is no tabloid longevity, but true beatification of the human spirit to triumph and over come the minutest of odds. Growing up in a worn torn Munich, Herzog moved to the remote Bavarian village of…
Stanley Milgram, was a famous social psychologist, he was also a student of Solomon Asch, and conducted a controversial experiment that was done in 1961, Milgrams classic obedience study, the investigation to the obedience to authority. Milgram’s experiment of obedience was done in 1961 soon after World War 2 had ended this was when the trials for war crimes against the Nazi’s were being done at the time. Milgram put a question on the experiment that what if the Germans during WWII were…
1. In the second text, ”Arnold Schwarzenegger Recalls Lessons From 25 Years as a U.S. Citizen—Learn English, Participate in Politics, and Give Back”, written by himself, the American Dream is described in a very positive manner. Arnold’s view is very much based on the success of immigrants, but he also voices his opinion on the responsibility of the immigrants. He believes that immigrants must try to fit in by learning the Native language (which is English in America of course) and also try to…
into traitors and stated that the Germans have brought their fate upon themselves. The director through the movie is sending a message mainly to the German audience saying that the German civilians were above all the main victims of this National Socialist…